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Date of entry/update: 2016-06-08
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Source/publisher: www. via Google
Date of entry/update: 2018-07-11
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Date of entry/update: 2018-06-01
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Description: "...Inclusive development that allows poor, landless, marginalised and vulnerable women, men and geographic regions to shape and benefit from opportunities provided by climate-resilient and low-carbon development;  Driving action to deliver resource-efficient development that will incentivise investment in a green economy to achieve growth targets with minimal environmental harm and carbon emissions;  Integrated development to direct government, development partners, civil society, private sector entities and communities to align, harmonise and coordinate policies and programmes to support the strategy?s overall objectives; and  Supporting results-oriented development through a time-bound goal and objectives to achieve this vision and strategic priorities to help the key sectors implement the strategy..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MoNREC), the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
2017-01-19
Date of entry/update: 2018-07-03
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Description: • Climate Change in Myanmar • Climate Change Policies • National Adaptation Plan of Action-NAPA • National Institution for Climate Change • Myanmar Climate Change Alliance-MCCA Sectoral Outcomes • VA and Adaptation Plan for Chin State • The way forward to Adaptation Planning.... • Highly exposed to severe natural climatic events • Droughts, • Heavy rains, • Cyclones / strong winds • Floods & storm surge (as a result of cyclones) • Extreme temperatures • (Earthquakes also potential hazard) • Vulnerability increased by sensitivity and low adaptive capacities against a large concentration of population and assets in exposed areas • The changing climate present new patterns of exposure, vulnerability and risks
Source/publisher: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation
2017-09-12
Date of entry/update: 2018-07-03
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Description: "The Myanmar National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) Report is prepared in the framework of the LCDF funded project ” Preparation of National Adaptation Programmes of Action ” implemented by United Nations Environment Programe (UNEP) and Executed by the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Ministry of Transport of Union of the Republic of Myanmar...Myanmar‟s climate is changing and climate variability already affects communities and socioeconomic sectors in the country. Some climate change impacts are already observable and there is broad scientific consensus that further change will occur. Even with significant global climate mitigation (activities and technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions), economic sectors, local communities and natural ecosystems in Myanmar will be strongly affected by climate change as a result of the emissions already in the atmosphere. Adaptation is therefore necessary for reducing Myanmar‟s vulnerability to climate variability and change. National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) serve as simplified, rapid and direct channels for Least Developed Countries to identify and communicate priority activities to address their urgent and immediate adaptation needs. NAPAs emerged from the multilateral discussions on adaptation measures within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)1,2 . Myanmar‟s NAPA therefore specifies 32 priority activities (referred to as Priority Adaptation Projects) for effective climate change adaptation for eight main sectors/themes (i.e. four Project Options per sector/theme), namely: i) Agriculture; ii) Early Warning Systems; iii) Forest; iv) Public Health; v) Water Resources; vi) Coastal Zone; vii) Energy, and Industry; and viii) Biodiversity(Table 1). The Myanmar NAPA preparation process followed the guidelines outlined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Least Developed Countries (LDC) Expert Group3,4 . Seven main steps were followed: i) establishment of NAPA Project Management and multidisciplinary teams (April 2011); ii) synthesis of available information (May ? July 2011); iii) stakeholder and public consultation to establish Myanmar‟s adaptation needs and potential adaptation projects/options (July ? September 2011); iv) sectoral working group meetings to identify and draft a list of Adaptation Project Options (October ? November 2011); v) sectoral working group meetings for screening, ranking and prioritising identified Adaptation Project Options (October ? November 2011 and March-April 2012). This entailed using a Multi-criteria analyses (a series of 15 criteria developed by the LDC Expert Group) to rank and prioritise Adaptation Project Options for implementation. Resulting scores for each Adaptation Project Option were used to determine the 32 Priority Adaptation Projects; vi) public Review Process of NAPA draft (February to April 2012); and vii) development of the NAPA project profiles using focus group discussions and meetings with working group members as well as other key stakeholders (March - April 2012)..."
Source/publisher: Myanmar?s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) to Climate Change
2012-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2018-07-01
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Description: Abstract: "Myanmar is a Least Developed Nation, according to the UN, and therefore is highly vulnerable to the negative effects of a changing climate. To assess the relationship between Myanmar and climate change, this thesis analyzes projected impacts on the nation and its people, the current state of adaptation, and how Myanmar?s government has prepared. Projected impacts are viewed through the lens of the most recent IPCC reports and climate models, and discussed in relation to vulnerable areas in Burmese society and governance. This thesis concludes that Myanmar?s environment, people and society are at a significant risk; higher temperatures, altered precipitation rates, and higher sea levels will lead to reduced agriculture output, the spread of disease, and loss of habitable land. Though recent governmental action has laid the framework for suitable adaptation measures, slow progress in past decades has left Myanmar highly vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. Myanmar?s next election is scheduled for 2015, and the emerging leaders have the opportunity to make significant progress in climate change adaptation. Cooperation between Myanmar?s new leaders and the international community could accelerate the nation?s adaptation efforts and result in significant progress on climate change preparedness projects."
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Source/publisher: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
2014-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2018-05-12
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Description: Executive summary: "• Failure to move away from fossil fuels, especially coal, may damage the international reputation of the ASEAN countries. Counter to the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) which the ASEAN countries themselves have formulated under the Paris Agreement, the region?s coal-based electricity generation capacity has been expanding rapidly. This may also lead to a large number of stranded coal assets in the future. • All the ASEAN member states have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and signed the Paris Agreement, and nine out of ten have also ratified the Paris Agreement. At least half of the ASEAN member states reacted publicly to President Donald Trump?s announcement that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, criticizing it and/or reiterating their own country?s commitment to climate action. ASEAN has identified climate change as a priority issue since the 2007 ASEAN Summit in Singapore. This declared commitment of ASEAN and its member states to international climate policy can provide a good foundation for joint regional climate policy formulation and action. • However, despite their positive stances on climate change, most ASEAN countries have not taken on prominent roles in international climate policy. As a result, they remain takers rather than makers in international climate politics. ASEAN as an organization stands to gain or lose status by following up or not following up its member states on climate issues, and by member states succeeding or failing to meet their NDCs. The ASEAN Secretariat can fulfill an important function by promoting a team spirit around this status drive. • ASEAN could formulate a regionally determined contribution (RDC) for ASEAN by adding up the nationally determined contributions of the ASEAN member states. This could help create a team spirit related to the NDCs, as well as possible peer review/pressure. • ASEAN could implement several other concrete measures to energize its work on climate change: maintain a focus on the NDCs of its member states under the Paris Agreement; ensure that current and future initiatives under the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) are ambitious and detailed as to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; highlight the vulnerability of Southeast Asia to climate change by publishing and sharing relevant analysis; advocate improved disclosure and reporting of the financial risks of climate change to governments and investors; put climate change high on the agenda of every ASEAN summit; involve and connect relevant civil society and academic organizations across Southeast Asia; facilitate regional electricity trade through the expansion of the ASEAN Power Grid for better handling of the intermittency of renewable energy; promote the accelerated phase- out of fossil-fuel subsidies—which is also a prerequisite for developing trans-border electricity trade in Southeast Asia. • To be successful, climate-related initiatives will need to consider the ASEAN way of conducting business, with its emphasis on national sovereignty, non-interference and consensus in decision-making. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has set an example of common but differentiated capabilities and responsibilities, further developed with the Paris Agreement?s concept of nationally determined contributions, which are precisely that—nationally determined. This approach is highly compatible with the traditional ASEAN approach to interstate cooperation. • ASEAN may be experiencing a problem of collective action on international climate policy: the member states are looking to ASEAN to adopt a stronger role, whereas the ASEAN Secretariat looks to the member states to take the lead and give clear signals. A first step towards solving this conundrum could be for the ASEAN Secretariat to further expand and strengthen its climate policy staffing—which will require funding and capacity enhancement."
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Source/publisher: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies
2017-11-06
Date of entry/update: 2018-03-09
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Description: "This case study is one of four commissioned by BRACED to assess the links between resilience and gender in partners? projects. It documents approaches used to promote gender equality within the BRACED Myanmar Alliance, as well as the latent challenges and opportunities in this process...key messages • The BRACED Alliance in Myanmar aims to shift community-level power dynamics, by increasingly integrating women into decision- making structures, building their economic security and honoring their leadership abilities. • The project will also inform and drive strategic policy interventions on women?s empowerment within climate change and DRR narratives. • However, gender transformation is a slow and dynamic process. Three years of resilience programming is not enough time to recast social norms that have crystallized over decades. • Gender transformation requires us to redefine gender roles and identities and to assess the concurrent monitoring and evaluation of changing social, political and economic trends as well as how communities respond to this process. • The Myanmar Alliance can set the foundation and pave the way to build climate- resilient communities where women equally drive sustainable development practices..."
Creator/author: Melanie Hilton, Yee Mon Maung, Virginie Le Masson
Source/publisher: BRACED
2016-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-09-13
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Description: "A roadmap to resilience and sustainability: Myanmar?s climate-smart agriculture strategy....."In light of climate change, people often talk about achieving climate resilience and sustainability. How do we get there? Is there a roadmap for climate change adaptation and mitigation? At first, it might seem daunting to address climate change in Myanmar. Germanwatch?s Climate Risk Index for 1994-2013 ranked Myanmar as the second most vulnerable country in the world, after Honduras. In 2008, category 4 cyclone Nargis hit the country. According to a World Bank report, Nargis severely affected the country?s agriculture sector with losses equivalent to 80,000 tons and damaging 251,000 tons of stored crops, across 34,000 hectares of cropland. Myanmar is an agriculture-based country, with 61% of the country?s 53 million people depending on agriculture for their living. The country has also been experiencing more climate extremes like drought, flood, sea-level rise and natural disasters. The recent launching of Myanmar?s Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy has paved the path towards guided planning for national climate change adaptation and mitigation. Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) focuses on three pillars in tackling climate change: food security, adaptation, and mitigation. The first national consultation meeting on ?Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategies in Myanmar? was conducted in September 2013, facilitated by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in Southeast Asia and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). The strategy aligns with the country?s National Adaptation and Plan of Action (NAPA) for climate change, which prioritizes agriculture, early warning systems and forest in its plans and development initiatives. The strategy institutionalizes Climate-Smart Villages in Myanmar as a community-based approach to a climate-resilient and sustainable agricultural development. These are benchmark villages that are vulnerable to climate change impacts and where CSA interventions will be tested, prioritized and implemented in close cooperation with the village, government units, and other stakeholders. The foundation has been laid. The next challenge now is translating the strategy into on-the-ground initiatives to achieve agricultural productivity and have climate-ready villages, provinces, and country."
Source/publisher: Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR)
2015-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-07-10
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Description: Authors: Carol Hunsberger, Esteve Corbera, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Romulo de la Rosa, Vuthy Eang, Jennifer C. Franco, Roman Herre, Sai Sam Kham, Clara Park, David Pred, Heng Sokheng, Max Spoor, Shwe Thein, Kyaw Thu, Ratha Thuon, Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Kevin Woods and Courtney Work..... Abstract: "Recent research highlights the potential for climate change mitigation projects and large- scale land deals to produce conflicts over land and resources. However, this literature generally views climate change policies and land grabbing as separate processes, and focuses on discrete areas where displacement or contested claims occur. We argue that additional research strategies are needed to understand the social and ecological spill-over effects that take place within larger areas where land-based climate change projects (e.g. biofuel production, forest conservation, or hydroelectric projects) and large land-based investments (e.g. plantations or mines) are found. We propose adopting a landscape perspective to study intersections and complex interactions within and across social, ecological and institutional domains. By co-producing knowledge with local actors, building capacity with civil society groups, and informing advocacy that targets policy processes at multiple scales, we suggest that such research could contribute to preventing, resolving or transforming conflicts ? even in places where difficult political transitionLand ‐ based climate change mitigation, land grabbing and conflict: understanding intersections and linkages, exploring actions for changes are underway"..... Keywords: Conflict, climate change mitigation, land grab, resource conflict, green grab, biofuel, REDD+
Creator/author: Carol Hunsberger et al
Source/publisher: MOSAIC Research Project, International Institute of Social Studies, (Netherlands) RCSD, Chiangmai University)
2015-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-06-26
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Language: English
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Source/publisher: Myanmar Ministry of Forestry
2009-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-06-17
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Source/publisher: NAPA (National Adaptation Programme of Action)
Date of entry/update: 2014-06-12
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Description: "Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to Myanmar, as well as objectives and methodology of the NBSAP. In Chapter 2, a detailed description about the diversity in ecosystems, habitats and species in Myanmar is presented, including the indication on species? status as being endemic, threatened or invasive. Chapter 3 discusses the background of national policies, institutions and legal frameworks applicable to biodiversity conservation in Myanmar. Chapter 4 analyses and highlights conservation priorities, major threats to the conservation of biodiversity as well as the important matter of sustainable and equitable use of biological resources in Myanmar. Chapter 5 presents the comprehensive national strategy and action plans for implementing biodiversity conservation in Myanmar within a 5-year framework that includes strengthening and expanding on priority sites for conservation, mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation in other sectors and policies, implementing of priority species conservation, supporting for more active participation of NGOs and other institutions in society towards biodiversity conservation, implementing actions towards biosafety and invasive species issues, strengthening legislative process for environmental conservation and enhancing awareness on biodiversity conservation. In this chapter, sustainable management of natural resources and development of ecotourism are also mentioned. Chapter 6 presents the required institutional mechanism for improving biodiversity conservation, the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation, as well as sustainability, of the NBSAP. It is trusted that the NBSAP provides a comprehensive framework for planning biodiversity conservation, management and utilization in a sustainable manner, as well as to ensure the long term survival of Myanmar?s rich biodiversity..."
Source/publisher: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
2011-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-06-01
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Language: Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Description: National Climate Change...Market Mechanisms Instruments
Source/publisher: United Nations and Myanmar
2014-05-08
Date of entry/update: 2014-05-23
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Description: Overview: • Definition of CF and its significance to REDD+ objectives • CF in Thailand and Myanmar - Background &Characteristics - Existing challenges • Connecting CF and REDD+ • REDD+ progresses in Thailand and Myanmar • Risks and Opportunities to CF
Source/publisher: Ratchada Arpornsilp and ZawWin Myint
2014-04-27
Date of entry/update: 2014-05-23
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Language: English
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